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“After all that carryin' on just gettin' him out and keepin' him alive he wanted to crawl back in my womb and well...I ain't got the room no more even if he could do it. There wasn't space for him in my womb (71).”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“You have made Commerce a god that weighs on humanity like a twenty-four-pound boil on a man's back (117-118)”
― Walter Mosley

“But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64).”
― Kola Boof, The Sexy Part of the Bible

“Since she seen Fortune head in that big pot Miss Lydia say that room make her feel ill, sick with the thought of boiling human broth. I wonder how she think it make me feel?

To dust the hands what use to stroke my breast; to dust the arms what hold me when I cried; to dust where his soft lips were and his chest what curved its warm against my back at night.

From the poem "Dinah's Lament" (15)”
― Marilyn Nelson, Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem